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He's a very good student who could very well have his degree after this year. Develop as a basketball player as much as possible at the college level? Check Get your degree? Check When those two checklist items are complete, it might be time to move on.

And... TOM ALLEN IS GONNA BE SO FREAKIN PSYCHED NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO CONTROL HIM, OR US!!!!!!!!

Dave Bliss? Many ties to "The Greatest Hoosier Ever" "Six years as an assistant under Bob Knight -- first at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1967-69), then Indiana University (1972-75) ... sharing some of Mr. Knight's obsession for coaching. Mr. Knight once called Mr. Bliss the smartest assistant he ever had, no small compliment, considering Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski also served under Mr. Knight. Mr. Knight, like other former Bliss associates, has been conspicuously quiet during the Baylor saga. It's uncertain whether Mr. Knight had contacted Mr. Bliss, or vice versa. A Texas Tech spokesman said last week that Mr. Knight was out of town and unavailable for comment. "I think early in his career, he was cut from the Bobby Knight cloth as far as the discipline and intensity level and all that kind of stuff," Mr. Koncak said. "I don't feel he took it as far as Coach Knight did as far as degrading players verbally, but it was tough. He was hard on you." Mr. Bliss admired Mr. Knight, even naming his first child Robert after his former mentor."

TELL EM MOYE!!

BtownBanners is even better. For real.

Booooo.

Coach Teri Moren needs to step up! [emoji2]

Seven rebounds in high level AAU at 6'0". Cmon WayneFleek; that's dominant.

No thank you..

Well then...

But other than that? ;)

We may be defining "rotation minutes" differently. I see one of the freshman averaging at least 15 minutes per game; that would be top eight on the team. And AGREED! Al Durham and Justin Smith are NOT Damon Bailey or Eric Anderson. BUT, as a freshman... Bailey had to get his minutes at the expense of Greg Graham, Jamal Meeks, Lyndon Jones, and Chris Reynolds. whereas Durham has to get his minutes from Curtis Jones, Devonte Green, and Josh Newkirk. and Smith needs to get minutes at the expense of Freddie McSwain, Clifton Moore, and Tim Priller As a freshman averaging 17 minutes per game Evans was behind bigs Cheaney, Anderson, and Nover. He took minutes away from Sims, Lindeman, and Pat Knight and was a rotation player. That's more where I see Durham and/or Smith. The point I'm making is that Archie, like other coaches, will gladly utilize freshmen over experience when the freshmen are better than the experienced players. PS: If I'm reading the interweb correctly, in Anderson's freshman year we were sole B1G champs at 15-3, 27-8, and finished #6 nationally in the final coaches poll. Anderson competed for minutes (and got a bunch) among Jadlow, Sloan, Pelkowski, Nover, Chuckie White, and Robinson.

Like I said, we should be better, more experienced than Illinois. Primarily because RoJo and Collin are great for our prospects, but Collin has never averaged more than 5.0 and 3.1 (less than Illinois sophomore Kipper Nichols). And, I hope he proves them wrong, but no B1G opponent is thinking that Josh Newkirk is a difference maker. We are counting on DeRon to be our go-to guy, and I understand why. However, he is a sophomore who averaged 5.9 and 3.1 last year (about the same as Nichols). We are also counting on CuJo, DeVonte, Freddie, who haven't proven much vis-a-vis being battle tested.

Exactly. That's why I think that Al Durham will get minutes. To do things that the others aren't. If we play four guards in rotation, I strongly suspect that Durham will surpass CuJo, at least. Whereas, I believe that JSmith will have a more difficult time beating out DeRon, Juwan, Collin, and Freddie for minutes. But it's July and I'm just speculating.

In addition to Black Illinois is also starting Alstork, a senior guard who averaged 19 points and 4.7 rebounds at Wright St last year, Mark Smith, a top 75 ish recruit, probably Nichols, who averaged 5.5 and 3.3 in conference play, Lucas, who started last 15 at pg, have Finke, Williams, Jordan. I think they'll finish below us, but they have more than a few rotation returnees.

Knight constantly featured one (usually) or two freshman in the mix of his better veteran teams. Eric Anderson, Jay Edwards, Evans, Fife, Bailey, etc, etc. Almost all coaches will do this if they have a freshman who's up to the task.

True, none of the others stick out, but which teams have more talent and experience on paper, based on prior performance and incoming additions? Michigan State Purdue Michigan Minnesota Northwestern Maryland Maybe 7. Wisky That would put us seventh or eighth in the B1G if we don't over or underachieve. And Illinois, Iowa, and Penn State as pretty close in returning talent and experience. Safe to say that we definitely have more talent and experience than OSU, Nebraska, and Rutgers.

All kidding aside, if we had Romeo Langford this year he would, at age 17, probably be our #1 late shot clock option.

Agreed that our biggest positive attribute (by far) is experience, and that's a good one to have. However, I strongly suspect that with all of that experience already on the floor, we will have one of the three freshmen rise into a real, substantive role. It could be Justin Smith, but I'm betting it's Durham, because unlike our other guards, that kid can get around people, play through contact, and finish at the bucket.

Nope to all the options above, and it's a big deal. When we were top ten during 2012 - 2014 we had options that could create offense: Vic, Cody, even Watford in the post by his senior year could get his own shot. Then, those guys moved on and Yogi wasn't ready yet, and when him and Vonleh and young Troy were expected to score we had troubles. When Troy improved he could really create. Add Yogi as a fantastic senior? We won the B1G. Then, last year we relied on TB and a gimpy JBjr to create offense, and that did not go well. This year? I hope DeRon a little bit, but not really any of 'em. That doesn't mean we'll be a bad team, but it will be a real downside to the squad.